ObjectivityIncarnate

The tiny percentage of users of these apps doing this will have their outlier data completely ignored. Colossal waste of time and energy.

Not when there is no imminent threat, and there is no such thing as “defending” yourself before any “offense” is attempted. See: https://lemmy.world/comment/13417359

clicking on a weird video and you permanently scar your algorithm.

It’s trivial to delete individual videos from your watch history, even moreso if you just saw it. Doing so makes it as if you never clicked on it in the first place.

Yeah, what kind of dumbass strategy is this? Is OP trying to keep losing elections?

LAMF != selfawarewolves

It’s not LAMF unless the consequence they’re bemoaning is precisely the thing they intended to impose on others, not expecting it to be imposed on themself, too.

It’s very obvious said Trump voter wasn’t seeking the ACA to be taken away from only certain others (they clearly recognize that it doesn’t work that way), so no LAMF.

They’re not employed by me. Wages are between them and their boss. Any more from anywhere else should not be treated as anything other than the optionally-given gift it is.

Tipping culture essentially amounts to legalized wage discrimination.

Both 2024 and 2016 were total punts by the Democratic party, elections that could have easily been won in large margins, but defeat pulled from the jaws of victory in a way that seemingly only they can.

People know if they live in battleground/swing states. And still, the fact is that despite Trump getting FEWER votes than last time (which is an election he LOST, by the way), he WON this time, simply because millions of blue voters in those key states decided they’d rather not vote at ALL, than vote for the Democrats’ candidate.

There is no excuse for the results of either of these elections, honestly. It’s fucking embarrassing.

If you truly believe that it is naive or ignorant to have a problem with any individual hoarding

Well, here’s an example of the ignorance I was referring to: no billionaire is “hoarding” anything. Their net worth comes from the value of their investments, investments into businesses that function within the economy. And investing into a business, and in turn owning a piece of it, is absolutely not “hoarding” that piece. To define it that way would be to define that owning anything equals “hoarding” it.

Ownership and hoarding are not the same thing. The fact that I have something you don’t doesn’t mean I’m “hoarding” it. That is a ridiculous notion.

so much wealth that they could solve just about any problem where money is the limitation

You have zero perspective on just how costly those problems are, nor the fact that there is almost no major problem that an injection of funds can fix all by itself.

The US government spends more each and every year than the net worth of every US billionaire combined. Over $1 trillion (which is ONE THOUSAND TIMES the amount of wealth that ‘qualifies’ someone as a billionaire) was spent last year on welfare programs alone.

It’s just not as much as you think it is, in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t think we can have a meaningful conversation.

Until you become more familiar with the facts of the matter, I definitely agree.

Billionaires should not exist.

You’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that there is always going to be someone with the most wealth. And in an economy that is constantly creating new wealth, the peak will also be constantly growing.

This is an incredibly naive and ignorant sentiment.

Total net worth of top 10 richest is ~$1.6 trillion: https://ceoworld.biz/2024/03/15/richest-people-in-the-united-states-2024/

That makes a net worth increase of $64 billion an increase of ~4%…which is the same amount the S&P 500 is up over the past few days.

“Stock market surges following Trump’s victory and billionares’ stocks go up the same amount as everyone else’s” just doesn’t make as good a headline, huh?

This is a big pile of nothing, nice job taking the clickbait and spreading it. The outrage farmers thank you.

Thanks for actually producing something substantial.

Of course, the fact remains that there is already more than enough 100% confirmed stuff to nail him on. Unfortunately the hyper-short attention span of most people today means they usually care more about how new a thing is, than how severe it is.

Cool quotes of things I never said, liar.

Linking to my entire profile and repeating your lie doesn’t cut it. Cite me. Cite a single sentence of me praising Trump. Quote me.

You can’t. Admit it, liar.

The grand irony is that just yesterday, I told a friend that even if Harris does win, if it’s not a blowout, I’m still going to be kinda pissed, because there should be no fucking way Trump should even come close to winning this election.

The electoral map should look like blue Reagan.

But no, because I have actual morals and values and don’t suddenly become okay with dishonesty based on who the target is, your simple binary mind just can’t conceive of me being anything other than one of the ‘bad guys’ on the ‘other team’.

Good, glad to see (well, hear…you know what I mean) it!

But if this is all the bad stuff, why was the guy talking about “hundreds of hours”? No need to exaggerate, just get it out there, you know? Actually, one better: announce it AS you release it, especially when there are multiple instances of similar claims that never materialized. The worst thing you can do with someone like Trump is ‘cry wolf’ yourself and cultivate skepticism. Only makes the real/unexaggerated stuff harder to ‘stick’.

I like how you assumed I was going to try to move the goalposts, though.

so much praise.

What praise? Link it.

you’re incredibly partisan

Stating a fact that favors one group over another isn’t what it means to be partisan.

feeling-driven

I have never taken a stance here that was rooted in “feelings”. I make a very active effort to draw my conclusions based on the evidence I have access to, and failing that, clear, consistent logic.

Show me where I’ve ever done otherwise, if you can.

pretty rude to people who criticise guess what? No, not science, not facts, not rationality, but Donald Trump

Who the target of a lie is does not affect my willingness to correct the lie. That’s called having values, instead of a political team. That’s what it means to be objective.

There is a lot of justified criticism to be levied against Trump, based on facts of what he’s actually done. But there is also a lot of bullshit that’s swallowed whole by people who don’t care what’s true, but will just accept, without scrutiny, anything claimed about him that’s negative.

When I know something is inaccurate, I will say so. Who or what is inaccurate about, is irrelevant, to me. I’d just as quickly debunk bullshit about Harris, or anyone else if I saw it.

the fact that it makes you cross that lots of women are checking that their husbands can’t find out how they voted, or even that Google thought they might, and that you’re calling people names for thinking it might be happening, doesn’t particularly convince me that this is not happening.

Pff, it doesn’t make me cross, I’m simply bringing some facts to a table that’s gone off the deep end with alarmism, clearly because they don’t understand how trending algorithms work.

This is a manifestation of the exact same phenomenon as people thinking, for example, that there is more violent crime now than there was 50 years ago, based on the fact that they are exposed to so much more crime reporting now via the Internet than ever before. I’m the guy who’s coming along saying “actually, all the evidence shows violent crime is way down now compared to then, your recency and exposure biases are just tricking you into thinking differently.”

You’re shooting the messenger trying to clue you in to the fact that your assumptions are clouding your judgement, nothing more.

Okay, so women asking about their husbands baptizing them is right there in the top 5 suggestions beginning with that phrase.

Think for a moment about how many women you really think are actually googling that, and that’ll give you an idea of how many women are actually googling this.

It really doesn’t take a very high absolute number of people to make a Google search trend, especially when it’s a search based on a headline that went viral during an election season.

Fact is, if these hundreds of hours of incriminating audio existed, and especially in the possession of an opponent, they’d have been released already, because there is every reason to do so and no reason not to.

That’s all there is to it.

Not that it even really matters. To say there is no shortage of genuine, provable bad/immoral action taken by the man is a colossal understatement. We don’t NEED to latch on to bullshit like this that’s obviously just trying to make headlines. Hammer home the shit that CAN’T be plausibly denied.

I swear, if this dipshit actually wins this election, after everything that’s happened…

But no, let’s all pretend he was sucking an invisible dick on stage instead, let’s spend a lot of time on that. It’s like you WANT to lose.

So frustrating.

Learn how trending on Google works. Then realize that right under the voting thing on the list of suggested autocompletes is a question about being baptized by your husband.

Do you think tons and tons of women are Googling that, too? How many women do you think are out there who got baptized by their husbands?

How gullible can people be?

Nothing came out that proved anything, lol. “Hundreds of hours of audio but I won’t share any of it even though the election is right around the corner”, huh?

Please.

Still waiting on that n-word tape, and the pee tape, and so on, by the way.

Trump has said and done enough stupid shit without people like this making up random bullshit and never producing the evidence they pretend to have, while idiots like the OOP run with it.